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oh and how high was the temp when you measured your gravity?

how much LME and how much grain? 1.061 sounds a mite high for a Kolsh, but hey, maybe you could dry hop it and call it an "Imperial Koelsch." :D (sorry am on an Imperial anything kick these days)

ok, I wanted an APA with some muscle. I used 7.5 lbs LME 2lbs 2 row pale malt 1lb cara pils malt 1/2 lb medium crystal malt 1oz Centennial (9.1%) + .5 oz Cascade (5.1%) hops for bittering .5 oz of Cascade flavoring hops .5 oz Cascade finishing .5 oz Cascade dry hop in secondary...

Just tried the goulash beer. It is the best beer I've ever tasted. Were it just a little clearer I would enter it in a homebrew contest; and it's only been in the bottle for 5 days!!! It is only lightly carbed so far, but more so than I expected. Even with all the recipes that i've...

well I think I fouled up my mini-mash. I started steeping at 155, but 30 minutes later the water was only 140... :( my sparge water turned out to be in the mid 150's too . Not sure how that got so fouled up. I sure paid a lot of attention. good thing I have so much liquid ME! ALso after...

temp control, and for the first time I will try to recirculate the grain tea back through the grain a few times before sparging with water. I am hypothesizing that the steeping grain will filter out some of the junk that causes cloudy beer. We shall see if it works. I'll report back.

Muuaahahahahahahahahahaha!!!! It's going to be big. I have 7.5 lbs of LME, over 3 lbs in grain for my mini mash, 4 oz of Hops... WL California V yeast. India what? :D Am going to be very meticulous with the grain, and try to get a nice clear beer. Can't wait for Saturday morning...

so my brewing has gone a little haywire lately... I made one Munich Dunkel, but as an ale, with California V yeast, and overdiluted in it primary. It had only 1.043 corrected OG. FG (after primary fermentation) was 1.015. :( So I put about 1.5 cups of brown sugar (in solution) into the...

I have to drink mine green as heck to make enough empty bottles for the next batch. I've bought more secondary vessels, but I still run out of bottles (and I have at least 150 grolsh bottles....).

no no it was in secondary for maybe 2 weeks tops.

I primed with 3/4 cup priming sugar. Wil try another next week and report back.

I bottled my first batch of beer that had spent time in a secondary. The beer is VERY clear, with almost no sediment in the bottle. However, while tremendously clear, the beer is also tremendously flat. does allowing the beer to settle in secondary delay the bottle-carbonation? most of...

I asked fo ra more rugged one at the local HBS, and they told me that they had the option of carying the unbreakable ones, but they ony cost like 2 dollars or so. So they decided to carry the expensive ones that break every two weeks. AHhahahahaha!!!! The first one I gently tossed while...

I am buying my 3rd today, and have only made like 7 or 8 batches :( . Can't they make one out of bulletproof glass or something? It's a marketing plot I think... :mad:

^ Ahahahaah!!!! plus I made it with WL California V yeast!!!! Poor beer, it's probably all confused...

I am doing 5 gallon mini-mash + extract boils now, so I am steeping for 30 minutes at about 150-155 in the first 2.5 gallons of water, and then putting the grains (in thir bag yet) in a collander in the top of my brew kettle and sparging with the other 2.5 gallons that I had been warming to...

well, I boiled up a cup and a half of organic brown sugar in a cup of water, and added it to my secondary, alonf with 1/4 of an oz of Hallertau hops. it is fermenting now, and I am a little worried that it might push the hops (which all live in the neck of my carboy now) up into my stopper...

I have a fouled up Munich Dunkel that I made as an ale. I put a little too much water in my primary, and ended up with 5.5 gallons. my OG was 1.043, and now it is 1.015. it has not bubbled in the airlock for 2 days or more. I want to rack to secondary and see if I can raise the ABV a...

yes, slowed down to 1 glurk every 5 or 6 seconds I am about to take a gravity sample

given the Chairman's avatar, I believe anything he posts...